Mexico has launched a search and rescue operation for two sail boats that vanished at sea while attempting to deliver food, medicine and other aid to Cuba.
Nine people were on board the vessels, which were meant to deliver humanitarian relief to the island nation this week as part of a larger maritime convoy. A US oil blockage intended to pressure the Cuban government has plunged the country into crisis, with food shortages and days-long electrical blackouts.
Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR) said the sail boats had set sail from Isla Mujeres, off the coast of Cancun, on Saturday. They were scheduled to arrive in Havana days ago, it said.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel…